Today's youth day, which means one more day for self-study for most people. What's worse, I still have to spend the day worrying about Chinese oral tomorrow. Now's half-time for me. I still have a load of things to complete before the end of today.

Today, Jean's friend came over for cycling. They returned before lunch and wanted to go out to Macritchie for dunno what. The point is, Jean wouldn't be eating lunch at home. Unfortunately, there was a hopeless cook at home, sitting by the piano and trying to complete music homework. I made her help me set up the oven before she left so that I could load in my pizza when it was done preheating. She was also my helpline later when I didn't what to press on that oven.

I had a fear of operating the microwave oven after I accidentally microwaved a pie on a metal rack (not too long ago). I was the only one at home. Halfway, I smelt something strong but not too disgusting coming out of the oven, so I thought it was the pie that was just aromatic. But when I saw that the oven was quite smokey, I decided to halt the microwaving to see if anything was up. Too my horror, smoke started filling the kitchen and I was almost scared to death. My first reaction was to drag a ladder to take down the smoke alarm and switch it off in case it ever saw the need to disturb the neighbours. The pie wasn't burnt but it was very, very hard. Then I had to clean up the aftermath and try to get the smoke out of the house.

When I told mom what happened, she was stunned at my lack of cooking skill. The problem: I thought I was supposed to microwave the pie with a metal rack. It was supposed to be using some baking function. I didn't believe mom when she told me at first. I thought microwave ovens were idiot-proof. However, when I flipped through the chem textbook a few days later, it stated that microwaving metal could cause the microwave oven to catch fire or explode. Gah... How does everyone know that, except me?

I used the convection thing as Jean instructed, but I put the pizza in and out of the oven at least 5 times to cook it at 1 or 2 minute intervals because I was paranoid of cooking the technologically advanced way. Another thing I need to do after O levels - research on cooking.